disable all the standby features of the laptop
There's more??
there is always more :). Either way, I would not trust a regular laptop to do this job. Perhaps just a personal opinion, but the main point of a laptop is that it is transferrable and not just sitting plugged in all the time.
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Not a valid argument imo. Physical access is root access.
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I meant it more like that they weren't designed to run 24/7. Especially, when people usually use old laptops for this.
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